Health and Disability

Welcome to the latest research blog from The Patient Experience.

In this blog we are interested in finding out a bit more about how you manage pain both acute and chronic (long term).
We see this blog as being a useful way in which you can share you experiences of managing pain and to give advice to others

There are a number of different ways of managing pain:-
a) Medications. These can vary from aspirin and paracetamol through NSAIDs to various different opioid products.
b) Physical approaches. These can include spinal cord stimulation, TENS machines, acupuncture or even low level laser therapy.
c) Physiological methods such as biofeedback, hypnosis and behavioural therapy.

In particular we are interested to how the answers to the following questions:-
• What are the medical conditions for which you need pain management?
• What kind of treatments have you used and how effective were those pain management treatments?
• How did you get information about pain management and how useful was this information?
• What advice would you give to somebody who is about to start a course of pain management?